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The Last American Man

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Finalist for the National Book AwardFrom the i New York
Times i bestselling author of i Eat Pray Love i , i Big Magic i
and i City of Girls i comes a riveting exploration of manhood
and all its complicated meanings through the portrait of an
American Mountain Man. In this rousing examination of
contemporary American male identity, acclaimed author and
journalist Elizabeth Gilbert explores the fascinating true story
of Eustace Conway. In 1977, at the age of seventeen, Conway
left his family's comfortable suburban home to move to the
Appalachian Mountains. For more than two decades he has
lived there, making fire with sticks, wearing skins from animals
he has trapped, and trying to convince Americans to give up
their materialistic lifestyles and return with him back to nature.
To Gilbert, Conway's mythical character challenges all our
assumptions about what it is to be a modern man in America
he is a symbol of much we feel how our men should be, but
rarely are. em em
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